Just a reminder to back up your designs often. My laptop motherboard died last week - I was lucky - they were able to backup the hard drive for me. Do you schedule a backup - and, if so, how often do you do it?
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I need to do that TONIGHT! I first save my files to my desktop mostly in a folder, then I send or copy those files to a USB. Wish I had an auto backup or external hard drive. Thanks for the reminder!
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by dailylaundry
06 Sep 2019
I have to admit - I was really nervous - but, I was very lucky!! How often do you back up designs?
18140Not as often as I should!
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by pcteddyb
06 Sep 2019
I have started using an automated backup to a thumb drive attached to my router that goes daily. Then I do an external hard drive backup too - that goes in our fire proof safe.
11271I don't back up as often as I should, but do keep my back-ups off location in case of fire.
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7208I know, I should do it more often. And as an IT person I do realize the importance of it,... but I’m always so busy,....
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by dailylaundry
06 Sep 2019
I know better too! I am going to look into the automatic backup through Windows 10.
by dragonflyer
edited 06 Sep 2019
Good luck with that, Laura, as I can't get the Windows auto back up to work properly for me....but we don't have a network hard drive...I only have two external hard drives and USB backups...
148909I have and external hard drive that backs up every night... You would be surprised how much you DL or change during one day.
My husband's computer for business just got fried last week with a storm even tough we have a back up battery on the computer. He had all his back ups and is back to working again after a week So important to back up.
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by dailylaundry
06 Sep 2019
My hubby says I could set up an automatic backup in windows to our network hard drive. I need to look into it! Thanks!!
111379I use a MAC and have a backup drive attached that backs up automatically whenever there are changes made. However these backup drives can fail as well. I have had to replace one several months ago. So I do also occasionally backup designs to a thumb drive. Would hate to lose 20+ years of designs collected! Hugs. Nan
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11927I try to remember each month but the year is flying by so fast I sometimes forget.
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by dailylaundry
06 Sep 2019
That is what had happened to me - I had a backup - but it was probably 3 months old!!
45918I back up about every 2-3 month on a external hard drive. After that I will back up from the external drive to my laptop in my Hobby Room. I know it is not often enough. I think I would do it more often if it would not take so long. Glad you did not loose any data.
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by frikanya
18 Oct 2019
I start putting my designs in the cloud then if anything goes wrong with the backup it is still in the cloud and I can download it - mostly use dropbox
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